Campus sexual assault: Should restorative justice be an option?
Jasmyn Elise Story is one of those rare people whose rape case got as far as consideration by a prosecutor.
She was 18, about to move from her home in Atlanta to London to attend a first-year college abroad program.
Over the course of the investigation, she says, she had to tell at least five different officials what had happened: How a man who knew some of her friends took her behind a house during a party when she was incapacitated by narcolepsy, how she left in shock and the next day went to the police and the hospital to get a rape kit.
After one year, that “came to nothing,” she says of the criminal case.
A female prosecutor told her they had decided not to go forward because they didn’t want her to be subject to a “he-said, she-said” trial, with the defense dragging her through the
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